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title: But when he had told her who he was, in her great joy she forgot all… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But when he had told her who he was, in her great joy she forgot all her sufferings, and they seemed as nothing to her. Who acts: husband, Princess, sufferings. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 190

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But when he had told her who he was, in her great joy she forgot all her sufferings, and they seemed as nothing to her.

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**Who acts:** husband, Princess, sufferings · **What happens:** tell, be, forget, seem, suffer · **To what, where:** Princess, great joy, sufferings · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, Princess, sufferings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg540:12:190
# text = But when he had told her who he was, in her great joy she forgot all her sufferings, and they seemed as nothing to her.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	parataxis	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	all	all	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	sufferings	suffering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	23	obl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | husband |  | Princess |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  | Princess's great joy |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **forget** | past | Princess | Princess's sufferings |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **seem** | past | sufferings *= suffering* |  | Princess |  |  | as nothing | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **suffer** |  | Princess |  |  |  |  |  | nom suffering «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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